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Coleman: rescind Iraqi reconstruction money

(AP) - U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman says he'll push to
rescind $1 billion in U.S. funding for Iraqi reconstruction --
responding to a report that Iraq could finish the year with as much
as a $79 billion cumulative budget surplus.

Coleman, R-Minn., says he'll introduce
legislation to rescind $1 billion that Congress had appropriated in
an emergency supplemental war bill.

He says that Iraq has the money to pay for its own
reconstruction, adding, "the United States should not be an ATM
for the Iraqi government."

This week, the U.S. General Accounting Office predicted Iraq
could finish the year with the surplus due to the influx of oil
revenues.